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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no easy way to get to med school. 
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Some ways are infinitely easier than others. Kids need to be strategic. I have seen very good but not brilliant kids who were highly strategic make it to places like Harvard, Penn, Hopkins Med and extremely smart but not-so-strategic students fail to make it to med school altogether.

An example i have seen over and over again: Very good student attends a very grade-inflated top school (think Harvard, Brown, UVA). Picks an easy major like psychology, government, sociology etc. Benefits from the rampant grade inflation and the good academic reputations of these schools and the GPA boost from the easy major in order to get into a top med school.

Med and Law schools admissions policies are not ideal. They encourage students to chase grades and be strategic instead of challenging themselves academically.   Why is an engineering major from Cornell or Hopkins with a 3.4 GPA automatically excluded from consideration at top med schools, and a Harvard, Brown, UVA government or psych major with a 3.6-3.7 is considered on target? The former is very likely stronger academically than the latter. [/quote]

easier =\= easy[/quote]

Eh a good URM student that manages to get into Harvard or Brown has it pretty easy for med school. [/quote]

I don't even know what that means. What are you trying to say?[/quote]

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